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Aid Trickles In To Famine-Ravaged Somalia
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The U.N. has begun airlifting emergency food relief supplies into the Somalia's capital after an initial delay. Families fleeing hunger and conflict in other parts of the failed state continue to arrive in droves in Mogadishu, seeking refuge and air max
food.
With a famine declared in two areas, Somalia is hardest hit by a devastating drought affecting 11 million people in the Horn of Africa.
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Another day, another flight, another delegation of VIPs, meeting and greeting local government officials on the ground — this time it's the U.N. World Food Programme, on an assessment mission to Doloow in Somalia, near the border with Ethiopia. Thousands of Somalis are flooding into Doloow in search of food, shelter and medical care, like Abdir Hussein.
Josette Sheeran, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, says the children are the priority.
"Our focus really is on the people that Cheap Ken Griffey Jr Shoes Black Red White
have not had access to the help in aid and trying to be able to reach those who are in dire need of the help," she says.
The landscape in Doloow is bleak and dusty, with occasional thorn trees offering some shelter and shade to dozens of families squatting and sitting beneath. The sandy, rocky soil yields very little vegetation. Nearby, a one-man operation has rigged up a mini water tank at the back of a donkey cart. A line quickly forms as a young boy struggles to keep up with requests to fill buckets and water bottles. Across the way, local volunteers are registering more new arrivals. The Doloow district commissioner, Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur, says help is urgently needed.
"The famine in Somalia, especially the one in Doloow, this Ken Griffey 3.5 Shoes
district, it needs an urgent support. We hope for practical action," he says.
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Posted on : Jul 29, 2011
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